Railroad-rail joint.



N0- 739,462. PTENTBD SEPT. 22, 17903.

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PATENT @Enron GEORGE ADAMV WEBER, oE s rAMEoRD, coNNEcricUr, AssieNoR To ,Trini `WEBER RAILWAYJoINr MEG. oo., on NEw YORK, N. Y., A ooRroRA TION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

RAILROAD-RAIL JolN';

SPECIFICATION forming part lof Letters Fatent No. 739,462, dated September 22, 19053;.

' Application filed January 20, 1902;: Serial No. 90,411. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE ADAM WEBER,

of Stamford, county of Fairiieldtate of Con-.

necticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railroad-Rail Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This improvement relates to joints where rail-sections are united end to end and secured together side by side in close proximity through the agency of a single joint.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a transverse section of a railroadrail joint embodying this improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan or top View of the same. v Fig. 3 is a side view of a block comprised in the joint.'

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

B B2 designate other railroad-rail sections arranged inline. On the outer side of the rail-sections A A2 is a ishplate C and on the outer side of the rail-sections B B2 is a fish-plate D. As here shown, these fish-plates are made in the form of channel-bars. In other words, they have ilangelike portions o d extending outwardly from their top and bottom edges. They are adapted to iit upon the feet of the rail-sections with which they coact and also under the heads of those rail-sections. sections A A2 and the rail-sections B B2 are blocks E, which are adapted to fit upon the feetand under the heads of the rail-sections.

tions to form a suitable joint.

They may be made quite short in the direction of the length of the rail-sections, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and F G designate angle chairs or shoes, each having a base portion and an upright.

railsections A' A2 B'B2 throughout a suflicient portionof the length of those rail -secj Usually they and the fishplates C D will be of the same length. Itwill be seen that the base of the steel.

Intermediate the rail-I Thev base portions extend-below the feet of the angle chairs or shoes will be reinforced at the I junctional portions of their'bases and up= rights.

Packing-bars H I iit against the outer sides of the fish-plates .C D and bear against the opposite surfaces of the uprights of theangle chairs or shoes. They are sh own as filling the spaces between the flange-like portions c strong and otherwise efficient jointis produced for rail-sections to be united endwise and securedsidewise in close proximity.

The blocks E, iish-plates C D, and angle shoes or chairs F G may be made of any suitable' metal, but preferably will be made of The packing-bars H I will preferablybe made of wood. v

What I claim as new, 'and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l l. The combination with two pairs of raily roadrail sections arranged in close proximity "side by' side, of blocks arranged intermediate the two pairs of rail-sections, fish-plates arranged against the outside of the two pairs of rail-sections, shoe angles or chairs yone having a base extending below the pairs of rail sections, and an upright extending outside of one of the fshplates,`the upright of the other plate and bolts for securing the parts together.

2. The combination with two' pairs lof railroad-rail sections arranged in close proximity, side by side, of blocks arranged intermediate {shoe-angle extending outside the other iishv of the two pairs of railsections; fish-plates having Harige-like portions at therupper and 11a-111e to this specification in the presence of lower edges, paekng-bars tted to the outer tWo subscribing witnesses. sides of these sh-plates, angle shoes or chairs having' uprghts which are outside the sh- GEORGE ADAM XVEBER' 5 plates, and bolts for securing the parts to- XVitnesses:

gether. GEO. E. ORUSE,

In testimony whereof I have signed my JOS. R. LWICELDUFF. 

